Opinion: Is Microsoft Running Out Of Exclusives?

[Veknoid_Outcast]

Normchacho said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:

That's exactly what I'm implying. Why should they count, if he doesn't like them?

Why would we measure libraries like that? Well, because how else would you measure them? Simply by the fact they exist? According to arbitrary numbers assigned by strangers?

People are welcome to list off exclusives to their hearts' content. But if someone is going to use that list as ammunition in a console war, I expect them to be able to defend it. And there's no way to defend a game unless one has played it.

Because they don't stop exsisting just because he personally hasn't played them.

A list of games is just that, a list of games. It's a reference for the reader.

If someone was making a list of war movies made between 1970 and 2010, they wouldn't leave off movies that they hadn't seen. Because then it would be an incomplete list.

 

As for using Metacritic scores in the list, it's simply an easy way to show a critical concensus. It works in this context because we all see a Metacritic score from the same perspective. An 85 is higher than an 80 no matter who is looking at it.

 

Now, if we were having long, scholarly debates of each consoles library and going through each game and talking about their merits and issues. Then yes. You're going to want to have played all of the games in question, and have very defined beliefs about each of them.

But, for someone making  a very rhetorical list of a consoles exlcusives and their critical standing, none of that matters.

I never said the games cease to be, or that they should be removed.

I'm making a very clear distinction about what is and what matters. 

Let's be real: no one making a list like the one that started this debate is doing so to provide edification for the reader. They're doing it as part of an anatomical measuring contest, to use an artful euphemism. But the list is useless on its own. It's simply a collection of numbers and letters. Unless those games are good or great, who cares?

The same goes for Metacritic, a poor measurement of quality. Yes, it shows the critical consensus. Again, a collection of numbers and letters that mean nothing if we disagree with them.